variations of an enigma

So glad she's not my imagination: after I did my Mystery Muse post last night, I had this weird feeling I'd wake up & see a white box. (That's the only catch with the blog format: if you're waking up & reading this, it will make no sense unless you read the previous post first).

Anyway, I'm so into the Bora colours: (me & everyone else) - the nude/dusty pink/pale blue/tan/beige/bit o' black knitted soft slightly ripped bit of an edge thing. That's how I'm dressing today: the more moth holes, the better, I say!

On left: My Muse. On right: catwalk, Bora Aksu, London Fashion Week, February A/W 2010.

Gotta run: more Press Day stuff! Then another Cupcake Convention. Have a lovely Friday everyone! xox

icon vs enigma

Every once in a while, I find someone who weaves fashion references into their own unique fabric. Preferably, with a pinch of irony. And often, they go completely under the radar.

You might remember my mystery muse a few posts back. Tonight, having seen the model DJ in the ubiquitous Burberry check scarf (a pattern, btw, that you hardly see on the new gorgeous Burberry lines), I went back thru the images in my mind - then on my laptop - and found what I had seen, if for no other reason than to know it wasn't a figment of my imagination.

This wasn't one of the people that 'everyone' photographed. No one has yet told me they know her, or know of her. She seems so serious (I've yet to see her smile), I usually see her alone, and she seems to have very much her own style. Apart from that, she's a total enigma to me.

I have finally finished compressing LFW images, btw. Whew. Now can finally start properly showing you what I've been seeing & doing since. There really is life after fashion week, you know.

who's that girl: mystery model DJ, on the run

It was that breathy, exhilarating first day back of school mania that was Day One of London Fashion Week in February, and we were all running - many in crazy heels - thru the streets of the West End, to get from one catwalk show to another on time.

As I ran, I was shooting this couple ahead of me. It was like being in a war torn country, & I was a BBC camerawoman. Their friend - running alongside me - said 'you can ask, you know: they'll pose' but I didn't have time to stop, and assumed they didn't, either.



When we finally got to the venue, we did this quick shoot. I didn't have time to write down her name as we all had to go inside. And I am kicking myself I didn't ask where she got her coat & shoes. I mean, the back of that coat, with the painting on it.. who made it?? All I know is what she told me, that she's a DJ, and a model.

There is someone who anonymously comments here from time to time - my fashion Deep Throat. Anonymous: who is this girl please??



I love all her elements but especially, I love a white, or pale nude/pink/pale blue coat or dress, with black tights and nude/beige heeled peep toe shoes. And a topknot. Notice how she was wearing her Burberry classic check scarf at first, but took it off for the 'shoot'. I love how that has become such an ironic, iconic look. I'm guessing the headphones are meant as decoration, i.e., jewelry, as opposed to function. But who knows?



Perhaps we never will know for sure. All I know is, for me, these elements - and something about Mystery Girl's own particular personality, her STYLE - adds up, for me, to something close to perfection.